1984 – George Orwell | Novel

The novel 1984 is considered one of the classics of world literature, and hardly any language is without more than one translation of it. This novel presented an imaginative picture of the totalitarian society governed by the single party, both in terms of literature and thought. Big Brother, the Ministry of Hate, the Hate Week, the Thought Police, doublethink, the spies' alliance, the three slogans of the party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength... those are the elements of this society ruled by oppression, torture, falsification of facts and history, turning society into a herd driven to hard labor, miserable life, wars, and prisons. A group of party members who, in turn, are under surveillance, counting their breaths and transforming them, in the name of defending the homeland and the ruling party, into individuals subjected to a hierarchy based on fear. Even parents fear their children, whom the education supervised by the party has turned into spies. Party members behave with complete submission after knowing the fate of every rebel. But within this terrible machine of repression, rebellions continue. They are the rebellions that distinguish the human spirit, which sees freedom as the highest human value. And it sees love as more beautiful and greater than hatred, and that human uniqueness is what sparks creativity. A novel read again and again for its literary creativity and its powerful depiction of a society devoid of freedom.